From 9aff86aaaad6d150d1951d37a8f69b8ba3caac68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: German <germanmartinezayuso@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 10:54:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] exposing a reconnection method

---
 src/ansys/mapdl/core/mapdl_grpc.py | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/ansys/mapdl/core/mapdl_grpc.py b/src/ansys/mapdl/core/mapdl_grpc.py
index a0eaba8132..24dd8db606 100644
--- a/src/ansys/mapdl/core/mapdl_grpc.py
+++ b/src/ansys/mapdl/core/mapdl_grpc.py
@@ -410,18 +410,7 @@ def __init__(
         if self._mapdl_process:
             self._create_process_stds_queue()
 
-        try:
-            self._multi_connect(timeout=timeout)
-        except MapdlConnectionError as err:  # pragma: no cover
-            self._post_mortem_checks()
-            self._log.debug(
-                "The error wasn't caught by the post-mortem checks.\nThe stdout is printed now:"
-            )
-            self._log.debug(self._stdout)
-
-            raise err  # Raise original error if we couldn't catch it in post-mortem analysis
-        else:
-            self._log.debug("Connection established")
+        self.reconnect_to_mapdl()
 
         # Avoiding muting when connecting to the session
         # It might trigger some errors later on if not.
@@ -455,6 +444,38 @@ def __init__(
 
         self._create_session()
 
+    def _connect_to_mapdl(self, timeout: int):
+        """(Re)connect to an existing MAPDL instance"""
+        try:
+            self._multi_connect(timeout=timeout)
+        except MapdlConnectionError as err:  # pragma: no cover
+            self._post_mortem_checks()
+            self._log.debug(
+                "The error wasn't caught by the post-mortem checks.\nThe stdout is printed now:"
+            )
+            self._log.debug(self._stdout)
+
+            raise err  # Raise original error if we couldn't catch it in post-mortem analysis
+        else:
+            self._log.debug("Connection established")
+
+    def reconnect_to_mapdl(self, timeout: int = None):
+        """Reconnect to an already instantiated MAPDL instance.
+
+        Re-establish an stopped or crashed gRPC connection with an already alive
+        MAPDL instance. This function does not relaunch the MAPDL instance.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        timeout : int, optional
+            Timeout before raising an exception, by default None
+        """
+
+        if not timeout:
+            timeout = self._timeout
+
+        self._connect_to_mapdl(timeout)
+
     def _create_process_stds_queue(self, process=None):
         from ansys.mapdl.core.launcher import (
             _create_queue_for_std,  # Avoid circular import error

From f2cbbb7743c998900d93a76cf7107c0deee2486e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pyansys-ci-bot <92810346+pyansys-ci-bot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2025 13:35:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] chore: adding changelog file 3933.miscellaneous.md
 [dependabot-skip]

---
 doc/changelog.d/3933.miscellaneous.md | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 doc/changelog.d/3933.miscellaneous.md

diff --git a/doc/changelog.d/3933.miscellaneous.md b/doc/changelog.d/3933.miscellaneous.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5ef85966ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/changelog.d/3933.miscellaneous.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+exposing a reconnection method
\ No newline at end of file

From 8c28d73eee902ad1dd5be4ce704cc7c2489c005e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: German <28149841+germa89@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 14:23:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Update src/ansys/mapdl/core/mapdl_grpc.py

Co-authored-by: sourcery-ai[bot] <58596630+sourcery-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 src/ansys/mapdl/core/mapdl_grpc.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/ansys/mapdl/core/mapdl_grpc.py b/src/ansys/mapdl/core/mapdl_grpc.py
index 94d7c13c23..5871658aa6 100644
--- a/src/ansys/mapdl/core/mapdl_grpc.py
+++ b/src/ansys/mapdl/core/mapdl_grpc.py
@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ def reconnect_to_mapdl(self, timeout: int = None):
             Timeout before raising an exception, by default None
         """
 
-        if not timeout:
+        if timeout is None:
             timeout = self._timeout
 
         self._connect_to_mapdl(timeout)

From 49a4ff3e975fdf8011e7817064428b7edfb75a99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pyansys-ci-bot <92810346+pyansys-ci-bot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 12:26:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] chore: adding changelog file 3933.miscellaneous.md
 [dependabot-skip]

---
 doc/changelog.d/3933.miscellaneous.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/changelog.d/3933.miscellaneous.md b/doc/changelog.d/3933.miscellaneous.md
index 5ef85966ac..ba2f2974e8 100644
--- a/doc/changelog.d/3933.miscellaneous.md
+++ b/doc/changelog.d/3933.miscellaneous.md
@@ -1 +1 @@
-exposing a reconnection method
\ No newline at end of file
+feat: exposing a reconnection method
\ No newline at end of file